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It's more that people misunderstand them because of all the silly things people say and do in their name, and never bother to read them themselves.

>>9260396
The latter and >>9260836

>>9260836
> or are they just hated because people feel uncomfortable with the conclusions that they come to?

This and >>9260836

I cannot tell if this is horseshit or hidden genius, but it looks great. Is development still going on?

>>9260150
No idea, the anon who made the document near the end of last year shared it on /lit/ but I've no heard of him since. Just wondering if he's taking this anyways, as it's pretty interesting. I don't see any problem in /lit/ doing an annual novel collab, Dreamscape was pretty fun and I was glad to be a part of it.

>>9260078
日本で名前が大好きだよ。

Ransom is dogshit

Medea is good, Tim Winton is bad and I've never read Ransom

>>9260064
appears appropriate for 17-19 yo

Oxford NSRV

ESV for modern English is good. Most versions are fine though, just avoid the NIV it's pretty bad

>>9259954
>Not looking for modernized versions
>>9259950
The King James Version is the cornerstone of Western literature

It's because basic atheism became a normie thing for a bit, so it had to be criticised as a hegemonic position. Maybe if there's a religious revival, a more militant atheism will emerge. Leftypol, for example, has been emerging in response to the right coming to power on the back of left-wing inanity.

>>9259842
I think we just tend to shit on the obnoxious hitchens/dawkins form of atheism, mostly because of the way those "science writers" shit on the humanities. There is a growing trend in Positivism/Scientific Materialism to dismiss the necessity of philosophy, art, sociology, psychology. A pretension that the physical science of neuroscience will make these fields irrelevant.

The most aggravating part of these arguments against philosophy, is that they are all essentially epistomological arguments about the nature of knowledge. That is, they are philosophical statements made against philosophy.

I think for a lot of us here, the whole "Is God real" and what not is also just really fucking boring. I don't believe in God, but I understand that other people do. And I really don't care that much about it, since the dominant ideology in the west is essentially secular, consumerist.

most users have problems with women, religion is the perfect haven for a bitter hatred of women.

also, yknow, a shitton of fascinating and exhilerating life experience

>compilation of wikipedia articles on whaling + some meaningless shit about mad captain
GREATESTESTSEST BEWK EVER

>>9259133
He also had life experiences that most wouldn't, but you NEETs keep trying to write a great novel about being a NEET, im sure it will be amazing

>>9258701
pleb

It's just a self-portrait.

>>9258701
What do you not get

>>9258518
PoeTry

Meme magic makes me me

I don't remember when I wrote this, probably on the comedown from an acid trip.

The trees cracked,
The snow fell,
The wter flowed!
Eternity in a winter's night,
The cold of Janus on your spine,
His teeth break skin!
His eyes reflect your own!
In August these trees were green,
ANd we made such a scene
As might flash on a screen
While hearts careen;
And we could dream
Beneath this verdant canopy,
Now dead & golden, all at once
October! Fear! The Spirits are near!
----
Sublimity comes with ecstasy.
I see universal symmetry
of white & black, eye & ear
of what is far & what is near.
Americans are conscience-bound
But their reason's now unsound!
Eye to eye, let's equals be,
I'm for you as you're for me.
A man is as a woman is,
The sun is as the stars are,
And all is one!
For what is not is Not,
And what is Is!

Nietzsche uses the term "life" equivocally. By "life" he doesn't mean the bare fact of being alive; he means a vigorous will to power. This is how he can say that a culture which protects people's lives at all cost can be sickly and "life-denying", whereas a violent culture can be "life-affirming".
He accepts the modern idea (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Darwin) that the natural state of things is war.

>>9258541
But isn't suicide anti-life-affirming?

I thought the Eternal Recurrence was the biggest pill to swallow in opposition to God.

Isn't suicide a rejection of the Eternal Recurrence in the hopes of Salvation through God?

Rousseau is not in that camp.

He's pretty mediocre. American Psycho was decent, but that's really it.

>>9257914
He is a hack who had the audacity to trash Alice Munroe. Do not show him respect.

>>9259337
Why is he a hack?

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currently reading
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>>9257548
Why don't you separate according to subject?

How do you expect to get accurate recommendations?

>>9257554
I do not care.
I find my own recommendations.

probably those emoji Shakespeare adaptations

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Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go'. An achievement.

>>9256092
Please no

>>9255110
I wish the mods would just ban shit b8 like this.

>>9255110
Yes

>>9255110
Still leeches himself to leftist thinking. Can't be that smart.

She was a lunatic going down the side of the road. Old ghosts hounded at her heels and surrounded and tormented her to mania. The pram tackled gravel and the sound of her screaming child emerged at times over the noise of traffic that passed behind a chain link fence. Found herself here all of a sudden with the clairvoyance of being the dreamer, where events are already in motion, no questions as to the how and why. They were dead or irrelevant but somehow they found her and so caught between a response of fight or flight, she frenzied in retaliation and great, animated flinches. Exhausted and eventually did not even have the energy to hallucinate. She clung to her mid-section and touched her chin to her chest, the pram was saved by a young tree as it rolled toward a likely tragedy and she went on into the paddock nearby, left empty in the centre of development, waiting patiently to become houses or an IGA. There was no foreground behind which she could hide but she diminished in the dying grass bent sideways by the wind, her apparitions returned to memory where she could still hear them, she asked no one for any mercy, wanted only the privacy to suffer. She was the custodian of that bit of land, or at least its unclaimed heir, and it took her kindly somewhere safe, where if searched for methodically over square metre she would inevitably be found, but where it was simple fact that no one would. Dusk bled orange into the sky and coagulated on the horizon in black bellied clouds of soot, and there was actually the cawing of crows, essential to the afternoon as the setting sun, the sound of them in intervals of four, each cry became weaker until there was silence, a sentence abandoned as the moment became unsuitable, or suddenly the speaker realised that what he was saying was of no interest to anyone listening or even to himself. Her baby quietly occupied by the scenery that seemed to materialise through the shape of whatever it was laying in, or else it had fallen asleep and would have to wake up soon.

>>9255006

Your writing is ornate and overwritten.

>>9255004
You kind of need context to understand King's quote. He was saying dream big while you're young because life is gonna shrink you down one way or another once you start to grow up.

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Starts with a G.

My waifu

I love u anon